Stories
- In pictures
Moles’ feet, dried frogs and other folk medicines
Early-20th-century folklorist Edward Lovett made it his mission to discover the nation’s beliefs and superstitions, collecting amulets from cottage cupboards up and down the country.
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
- Article
Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
Catalogue
- Books
Popular medicine in seventeenth-century England / Doreen Evenden Nagy.
Evenden, Doreen.Date: [1988], ©1988- Archives and manuscripts
Gould and Pyle: Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1900 (Popular Edition)
Date: 1900-1952Reference: PP/FPW/B.25/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Books
Popular medicine in Sasanian Babylonia / Maurice B. Gordon.
Gordon, Maurice Bear, 1916-2006Date: 1942- Books
Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England / introduction and texts by Tony Hunt.
Hunt, Tony.Date: 1990- Books
Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England / by Kaara Peterson.
Peterson, Kaara L.Date: 2010